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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gonatus

Armhook squids

WoRMS 138036ITIS 82418GBIF 2290062key worms:138036
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2026-08-05: itis_id 82418 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Histioteuthis heteropsis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Gonatus
Photo · Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Gonatus is a genus of squid in the family Gonatidae, comprising twelve species, and therefore containing the most species in the family. Adult squid belonging to species in this genus are notable for their lack of tentacles.W CalCOFI holds 749 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2008 and 2023, as invert, across 3 taxa under it.R

749
observations
749
records
698
sampling events
2008–2023
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
invert
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 698 obs · 698 events · 2008–2023 · invert
    name used: Gonatus Armhook squids · code 9630

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:138036%22